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[–] 99 points 1 year ago (25 children)

Now you know to think twice before buying Samsung anything

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  • [–] 58 points 1 year ago* (16 children)

    Samsung recently released UI 8 for Android, which had the astounding forward-thinking and innovative move of removing the ability to silence your phone by hitting the volume down button

    idk what phone I'm gonna buy next, but that's the last straw with Samsung for me. I'm already sick of them changing features on the phone to make them worse, like how in order to do a partial screenshot (a feature I used to use a lot) you now need to click the button and wait a few seconds for the "AI" to think about what portion of the screen to select. you cannot skip this waiting period. you cannot disable this (that I have found). you cannot 'undo' when you draw a box around a section that includes text and it tries to helpfully extract the text for you instead of just fucking taking a screenshot of the highlighted portion of the screen

    fuck Samsung

    a guy at work said graphene has been going pretty good

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  • [+] -10 points 1 year ago (12 children)

    If you're that fed up, may as well buy an iPhone and root/flash the thing to a custom OS, or another Samsung, and do the same thing. Those brands have consistently had the best hardware, so if you're gonna just nuke the software anyway, which is your best option, may as well get the hardware that you want.

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    No offense but what world are you living in where you can just install custom firmware on iPhones and Samsungs? I'd love to live in that world but those are two of the worst manufacturers for cfw support

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Did they disable jailbreaking and flashing new roms on in the last few years?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Jailbreaking is the term for an iPhone, IIRC.

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  • [+] -5 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago
    • that doesn't turn the phone on silent

    • yes, they replaced the partial crop with AI select. same method of using it, worse feature

    • I'm on a relatively new phone, so it must be because Samsung sucks

    • the OCR button doesn't undo, it just flashes and then reselects the same thing with the text highlighted

    maybe mine is buggy. either way, it's still because Samsung sucks and the feature doesn't work.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    It's a smart fridge; they didn't even think once when they bought it

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I don't know there are a lot of features on a smart fridge that are pretty cool a lot of things that actually can come in handy that I really appreciate it when I considered purchasing one. I'm glad that I didn't make the purchase before they came out with this idiotic bullshit.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    A refrigerator has to do two things.

    • stay cold
    • turn on a light when I open the door

    I want my fridge to be as dumb as possible.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    I hate embedded smart stuff in devices in general as they always get support dropped way too soon (and often enshittified with updates as demonstrated), but as a concept a fridge that would keep track what's in it, their expiration dates, and auto-updated a shopping list when something is used up would actually be really handy.

    Wanted to make some pasta few nights back but I was out of cheese and the cream had expired, so instant noodles for dinner it was. Again.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I mean for me it was the fact that it was an embedded tablet the fact that you could trade shopping list and automatically send them to your phones so that way you remembered what to get at the store or while you're at the store items to be added. Capability for attack actually keep track of when stuff is expiring so that way you knew hey you know what I better go buy this even though it's not on my list because what's in here is going to be bad things like that. Also do enjoy watching and looking at recipes online having extra counter space and not having a tablet or having to pull my phone out every 30 seconds while looking at recipes or listening to music or even watching a show while I'm cooking on days like Thanksgiving having the football game playing stuff like that. People that are opposed to advancements in technology are often the ones that hold us back. But luckily there are far fewer people that are actually opposed to it and most of them are concentrated to small forms such as this. we can see based on the amount of sales that the vast majority of people do want the smart fridge new on additional features besides just being able to open and close it and keeping stuff cold or frozen.

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